Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind : Meaning and Mind, Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part I: Essays (Paperback)

Note to the paperback edition ix

Acknowledgements xi

Preface xiii

Abbreviations xviii

I The Private Language Arguments 1

1 Preliminaries

2 From grammatical truth to metaphysical theory

3 Deviations and dialectic

II Privacy 17

1 The traditional picture

2 Private ownership

3 Epistemic privacy

4 Only a first step

III Private Ostensive Definition 37

1 A ‘private’ language

2 Names, ostensive definitions, and samples – a reminder

3 The vocabulary of a private language

4 Idle wheels

IV Men, Minds, and Machines 59

1 Human beings and their parts

2 The mind

3 Only in the stream of life …

4 Homunculi and brains

5 Can machines think?

V Avowals and descriptions 83

1 Descriptions of subjective experience

2 Descriptions

3 Natural expression

4 A spectrum of cases

VI Behavior and behaviourism 97

1 Behaviourism in psychology and philosophy

2 Wittgenstein: first reactions

3 Crypto=behaviorism?

4 Body and behavior

VII The Inner and the Outer 127

1 Semi-solipsism

2 Inside and outside

3 The indeterminacy of the mental

VIII Thinking: Methodological Muddles and Categorical Confusions 143

1 Thinking: a muddle elevated to a mystery

2 Methodological clarifications

3 Activities of the mind

4 Processes in the mind

IX Thinking: The Soul of Language 161

1 The strategic role of the argument

2 The dual-process conception

3 Thought, language, and the mastery of linguistic skills

4 Making a radical break

X Images and the Imagination 183

1 Landmarks

2 Seeing, imagining, and mental images

3 Images and pictures

4 Visual images and visual impressions

5 Imagination, intention, and the will

XI I and My Self 207

1 Historical antecedents

2 ‘The I, the I is what is deeply mysterious’

3 The eliminability of the word ‘I’

4 “I” does not refer to a person

XII The World of Consciousness 229

1 The world as consciousness

2 The gulf between consciousness and body

3 The certainty of consciousness

XIII Criteria 243

1 Symptoms and hypotheses

2 Symptoms and criteria

3 Further problems about criteria

4 Evidence, knowledge, and certainty

Index 268